Landmark US Supreme Court rulings throughout history

In what has the potential to become one of the most monumental Supreme Court decisions in U.S. history, the highest court in the land has decided to hear four cases—each of which upheld bans on same-sex marriage— from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. The court will hear arguments sometime in April, and will hand down its decision in June.

With such a large decision pending we’ve compiled a list of some landmark Supreme Court rulings. They are divided into four categories: rulings overturning federal law, rulings overturning state law, rulings upholding federal law and rulings upholding state law.

The list should have included Bush v.Gore. History will show this to be one of
the very worst and politically motivated decisions in history. Even Sandra Day
O'Conner is now questioning her position on this case that gave us a
President not elected by the people but rather selected by the Supreme Court.

If defense of traditional marriage is the goal we ought to be grateful that gays
have come out of the closet. It used to be common that gay people would marry
the opposite sex out of societal pressure. Now that they have come out and are
able to marry their own this will no longer happen. People who enter into a
straight marriage will no longer be stuck with somebody who can't
appreciate them.

Churches and conservatives who say this hurts
traditional marriage don't know what they're talking about. There
practice of shaming homosexuals and causing them to marry heterosexuals was
itself damaging to traditional marriage.